Extinction Quotes

One saw a bird dying, shot by a man. It was flying with rhythmic beat and beautifully, with such fre...

It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutatio...

There are species that retain their characteristics even in conditions that are relatively different...

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct beca...

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, a...

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space...

It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate...

Few problems are less recognized, but more important than, the accelerating disappearance of the ear...

– The life of the worlds is a roaring river, but Earth’s is a pond and a backwater.– The sign of doo...

Caught in the center of a soundless fieldWhile hot inexplicable hours go byWhat trap is this? Where ...

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art ...

The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to d...

Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that in...

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but i...

Three hundred types of mussel, a third of the world’s total, live in the Smokies. Smokies mussels ha...

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

The living world has become impoverished. Species are being lost every day. Energy and other resourc...

So while this is a book about fighting back, in the end this is a book about love. The songbirds and...

We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And spec...

We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is mor...

If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present para...

The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welf...

So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that...

I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally jus...

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the...

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, sa...

We're so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody's going to save something now. Save the trees, save ...

It may sound peculiar coming from an old punk rocker, but I strongly believe that governmental polic...

A shell in the pit," said I, "if the worst comes to worst will kill them all."The intense excitement...

One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellying...

I think this was a nice idea we had in this country and a nice landscape to experiment with. But I t...